Anthrocasts: Who’s talking, who’s listening?
For anthropologists, who labor in a discipline obscure enough that even most educated lay-people have no idea what it is, podcasting offers a new and powerful way to…
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#3 The flies that bind: Assa Doron talks waste in India
In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Assa Doron talks about India’s waste, both liquid and solid, and the physical and institutional infrastructures that handle it–or fail to, plus the…
#2 Tanisha Jowsey talks “Medical Tribes”
“Part of my role in teaching medical students is to peel back the inculturation that they’re in, to be able to relate with patients. Remember before you were…
#1 This Month on The Familiar Strange
Jodie, Simon, Julia, and Ian preview what’s coming up on The Familiar Strange blog in the coming month. On today’s show, Jodie (1:40) follows up on 2015 fracas at…
Introducing The Familiar Strange
Welcome to The Familiar Strange! In this brief introduction, the four hosts of the show introduce themselves, the podcast, and The Familiar Strange blog. This is a podcast…
New Books in Anthropology Podcast
A few weeks ago, Nivedita Kar interviewed me for the New Books in Anthropology Podcast. The episode just went online yesterday. In our conversation, we discussed some of…
Interview: Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade by Rajan Gurukkal
Rajan Gurukkal‘s Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations (Oxford University Press, 2016) casts a critical eye over the exchanges, usu…
Interview: Sonic Rupture by Jordan Lacey
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding the…
#PODCASTS FOR YOUR SUMMER @Allegra Lab
What’s that sound? The sound of happy students swimming in dissertations, papers, exams? The sound of a faculty drowning in a marking tsunami? The sound of freshly unemployed…
TAL + SM: The Stories Bones Tell
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 4 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you…
#Podcasts for your Summer
What’s that sound? The sound of happy students swimming in dissertations, papers, exams? The sound of a faculty drowning in a marking tsunami? The sound of freshly unemployed…
TAL + SM: Anthropology has Always been Out There
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 2 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins, with Leslie Walker This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds…
A Note about Changing the Name of the Blog and the Podcast Series
Earlier this week, in collaboration with the podcast This Anthro Life, we debuted our new five-part series called “These Anthro Minds” – except that wasn’t the first choice…
Savage Ears, Anthro Minds: Writing “in my Culture”
A podcast and blog walk into a bar… Click the image above to check out the podcast on This Anthro Life This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal episodes. The Society for Applied Anthropology…
Ice Cream and Architecture
Outer Space Podcast Trilogy 3: Ice Cream and Architecture
Moon Dust and Cosmo/politics
Outer Space Podcast Trilogy 2: Moon Dust and Cosmo/politics
Interview: BITS of Belonging by Simanti Dasgupta
What links a water privatization scheme and a prominent software company in India’s silicon city, Bangalore? Simanti Dasgupta’s new book, BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliber…
Haircuts and Billionaires
Outer Space Podcast Trilogy 1: Haircuts and Billionaires
Interview: Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets by Roman Sieler
Roman Sieler’s Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a fine-grained ethnographic study of varmakkalai–the art of vital spots,…
Interview: The Pariah Problem by Rupa Viswanath
The so called “Pariah Problem” emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and “upper”caste landlords, among others, struggled to understood the situation…
TaL Back in the Studio! What’s Next??
Adam, Aneil, and Ryan are all back in the TaL studio for the first time in 18 months! And it feels good. Today we talk shop about where…
Talking Anthropology: Podcasting and Its Potential for the Discipline (Part Two)
We’re back with another post from our friends at Teaching Culture blog! This time we explore podcasting and its potential for Anthropology. Here’s an excerpt, and be sure to…